Avalanche in Utah, February 27, 2000

Name: Avalanche in Utah, February 27, 2000
Start: 2000-02-27T12:00
End: 2000-02-27T14:00
Location: Utah

February 27, 2000 · NWS SLC · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 avalanche, as filed by the National Weather Service.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 1
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

Event by event

1 avalanche. Local standard time, as filed.

Avalanche, Rich/Cache T Nw/P E C Weber/Most of Morgan/Nw Summit/Ne Salt Lake/X Ne Box Elder

When: February 27, 12:00 PM MST to 2:00 PM MST
Where: Rich/Cache T Nw/P E C Weber/Most of Morgan/Nw Summit/Ne Salt Lake/X Ne Box Elder forecast zone
Injuries: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by: PARK/FOREST SERVICE

A ski patroller from Snowbasin was seriously injured in an avalanche in a closed area of Snowbasin. The man was doing routine checks of the Mt. Ogden flank in-bounds when a slab of wind-blown snow 200 feet wide slid 300 feet down the mountain. He was able to ride out the slide, but was slammed into a tree, breaking some ribs and his jaw, and causing other internal injuries.

What these are

Avalanche: A mass of snow sliding down a mountainside that caused a death, an injury or damage.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Utah in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings in Utah, February 2000

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5178683.